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be made: “The current emphasis is on providing a variety of film licensing options; improved image quality; a more experiential in-seat experience; and reduced per-seat costs which make flying theatres a stand-alone financially sensible option.” Mike adds that "one of the biggest


challenges for operators has been the cost, and associated risks, of producing custom flying films.We’ve solved that issue. SimEx-Iwerks and MacGillivray Freeman Films are creating a catalogue of flying films that will be available to rent. Our first films will be released in early 2019,” he says.


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we produced our first Flying Theatre film for an external clclient ‘FlFlying over Mexico’, where we are just finishing post-production. Currently we are in talks with a number of clients for further Flying Theatre” films.


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more affofordable. The image-quality is probably the most imimportant factor for the guest’s experience and we see ththat new installations are going for higher quality some older installations are retrofofitttiting new pr projecjection systems. For the fiilmlm pr producers thihis alsolso means producing ththe media in the highest qualityty possible. At


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creatively we have only seen a f frraction of what is realeally possible.Wiitth every filmlm cl cliientents and film producers becombecome morore adventurous. Generally we see more and more scenes that are moviving away from the “classic” aerial helicopter shots. They stillll work greatt,, but at the same time it is quiuite l limimititiing what you can do wiitth a helicopter and fiilmlminging permits is usually another big challenge. In our last film about one third of the scenes was live filmed footage, another third was live filmed but heavily augmented wiitth vi visual effects and about one ththird was photorealistic fully computer animated shots. In ththe final film the differences between these scenes are ininvisivisiblble t to heo the view vie er. For us as the producer, i itt gives us a much greater creative palette to work wi witth, freeing us frfrom the limits of the physical worldld and flyiying permiitsts. We can create any shot imaginable, it allows us to put more storytytelelllining into the fiilmlms and allows for a fluent


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movement within the film that is alsolso realallyly important for the overeralalll Flying Theatre experperienience.WithMackMedia andMack Animation we can com inombine our experience with l liive shooting and high-end animatio capabilities to produce the whole film in-house. A big chalalllenge in the production of a Flying Theatre movie is that you can realallly only evaluate how wellll i itt is working in an actual Flying Theatre. Usually that happens when he lm is alr ady nearly fininished and at a time when changes are really expensive to make. That is why we have adopted our workiking process from animated films and do a complete previsualisation of the fiilmlm in the form of anof an “Anim“Animatatiic” before we start the actual shooting.We show this “Ahis “Animatic” to our clients in our Flying Theatre with movement, which actually gives them allrready a very close approximation of the finished film’s experience. This enables the clients to give us theieirr input before shooting and they can have much deeper involvement in the creation of the fiilmlm. For us it is the possibilitty idideas in a cost ef cient movie is als shoo ing


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MackMedia an Mack Animation are themedia art of theMack family usiness. Forme 2018 in partnership with Ambient Entertainment, the leading feature film animation studio in Germany,Mac Animation ck An


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